Daily Health Care News – 8/26/08

NEWS

Stanford University, concerned about the influence drug companies may have on medical education, is expected to announce Tuesday that it will severely restrict industry financing of doctors’ continuing education at its medical school.

OPINION

Uninsured Americans will spend $30 billion a year in out of pocket expenses and incur another $56 billion in government-subsidized expenses, says a new study for healthaffairs.org by Jack Hadley of George Mason University in Virginia and a team at the Urban Institute.

We Did It!

After a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for progressives to run a grassroots powered, $60 million successful push for health reform, HCAN has brought its five-and-a-half year campaign to a close.Read more here.